Blues is black. Also Paul Butterfield, Boz Scaggs Loan me a dime. Good to see you have got Gary Moore in there. This list needs serious reconsideration. Tab Benoit, Tommy Castro, Blues Brothers, Room full of blues, Elvin Bishop??? Every single LIGHTNIN HOPKINS ALBUM is better than MOST of the albums listed. And change some to different albums. Especially leadbelly. Also no love for anything Derek Trucks has been involved with. Man, did they miss a lot. Very best of that particular genre that includes Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Its always nice to read contemporary opinions of new poles but the affection adios would surely out number you nominal listing and statistically disagree with this list posted in the idem.. Amen brother, what a joke. She's coming. No Muddy Mississippi Waters Live? Glad folks mentioned Duster Bennett and Rod Piazza, Gravetes, and Alex Koris. Down and Out Blues Sonny Boy Williamson (1959) King to Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton. More remarkable was Wolfs singing voice, which could change from a deep, full-throated roar to an eerie lupine howl. His first major records, The Fat Man, was a revamping of Champion Jack Duprees Junkers Blues. Like Skip James, he recorded in 1930 for Paramount and was later plucked from obscurity by the folk-blues revival. Excellent list, though I would have left a Various Artists field opened for CHICAGO! Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation with John Moorshead? Fats knew his blues! Big Joe Turner, with Count Basie, Kansas City; on Pablo Both players enjoying the company they were keeping. Thank you! Im glad to see both old and new records on the list, but one of my all-time favorite is missing; Walter Trout. Think in those terms and some of the classic rock bands qualify. Baptized Samuel Maghett, Mississippi-born Magic Sam was raised on the music of Muddy Waters and Little Walter and, at the age of 19, moved to Chicago, where he recorded for the local Cobra label in the late 50s. Before she achieved significant pop/rock crossover success, Raitts early albums like this one, only her second long-player were an eclectic mix of blues, antique jazz, folk, and singer-songwriter pop. The album will be delving into deeply personal topics in RAYE's life, such as . 12. The Real Folk Blues, mainly a compilation of earlier tracks for Chess, came out in 1966. However Im really disapointed in the 28 CD Box Set just released of Cuby. Willie Dixon Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, and Frank Zappa all cited Slim as a seminal influence. East-West is widely acknowledged as one of the best and most influential albums in the history of blues rock. With, Standing at the Crossroads , Like a Sheep Out on the Foam , Doin the Shout , etc. Listen to the Stones 1st 4 LPs,Rolling Stones After Muddy Waters.When they tour they sit in with blues bands after the gig .Listen to Mick Jagger & the Red Devils all lil walter&Willie Dixon,Howlin Wolf, Strictly speaking, Harmonica Slim may be correct about several blues-inspired bands appearing on a blues-exclusive list. The biggest was the No. And no one mentioned Stevie Ray Vaughs double Lp, Live. Great. 99. At the end of that decade, he signed a deal, appropriately enough, with Cincinnatis King label, where he recorded his debut long-player, Freddy King Sings. Savoy Browns BLUE MATTER & Albert Kings Live Wire/Blues Power-live at the filmore are a couple of my favs. With Johnny Winter,James Cotton Steady Rollin Bob Margolin, Charles Calmese and Willie Big Eyes Smith this would be near or at the top of my Top 100! So thanks again! Im checking him out at a small venue this August. Cuz yer listening to the blues and thats the thing. "Mary Jane." 7. Though born in Paris to Austrian and Greek parents, Korner became one of the prime movers and shakers of the influential British blues scene in the 1960s. The two James Brown-tinged tracks The Screwdriver and Two Bugs In A Rug with their funky undertows, showed that Hooker was hip to new developments in R&B, which gave his music a fierce contemporary edge. Live At The Regal is widely considered one of the best blues albums of all time and purportedly had a profound influence on British guitarists Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler. lol about Joeso true. The album marked a watershed moment for the British music scene, sparking a blues-rock explosion. Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia, Ma Rainey was one of the first blues singers. No John Hammond? He serves up some of his big hits (Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man) alongside blues standards (Baby, Please Dont Go), and new and unreleased songs (I Got My Brand On You). I believe this really should be Moanin in the Moonlight out in 1962 with Moanin at Midnight as the first song on this release. . The apotheosis of blues-rock. (with Muddy Waters Band) the summit of Chicago Blues, obviously I miss in the List..about british blues A hard road John Mayall & bluesbrakers, one of my favs is Albert KingBlues PowerLive at the Filmore and also Smokin Jo Kubeck & Benoit KingHave Blues Will Travel. He enjoyed a brief recording career but made a lasting impact with the 51 songs he recorded for Paramount in a fertile period between 1929 and 1934. Ultimately who is the definer of what blues is and whether an artist is truly a blues artist? Yes, Im with you on that: George Thoroughgood? Maybe you did research but you seem biased to American and English whites as well as universally recognized blues artists! Recorded between 1966 and 1970, the LP contains original material (Hear My Train A Comin' and Voodoo Chile Blues) with covers of Albert Kings Born Under A Bad Sign and Muddy Waters Mannish Boy. Crucially, the album also shows how Hendrix was able to transcend his blues roots and take the music on a mind-blowing cosmic journey. Comments (22) Discography. But you have forgotten one very important British blues classic from that time, Five Live Yardbirds with the Yardbirds (Eric Clapton was one of members at that time, replaced later by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page). Bad Company? I might beg to differ on The Allman Brothers though. Either of the first two Hot Tuna albums? Fleetwood Mac and Otis Spann, Duster Bennett. Though he possessed a distinctive gravelly singing voice and played bass and guitar, hes more famous as a prolific songwriter; he was responsible for penning some of the key blues songs of the 1950s, including Spoonful, Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man, and The Little Red Rooster. He serves up his own striking interpretations of those three blues evergreens on this 1970 LP, the sixth album of his career, on which he sings and plays bass in the company of a smoking band that includes harmonica player Big Walter Horton and Chess Records session pianist Lafayette Leake. Something from Colosseum? Rock blues, straight blues, jazz blues etc. Fats domino too. A Top 5 R&B hit, the timeless At Last, was her bluesy reconfiguration of a 1942 tune by big band jazzman, Glenn Miller. There the Gibson is really crying. Have a Good Bluesdigging Life , Bert!!!! 070 Shake) 6. Amongst its gems is the carefree title song, the earthy I Crave Pigmeat with washboard accompaniment, and the storytelling ballad Homesick and Lonesome Blues, a vehicle for Fullers scything slide guitar. One James Cotton album and two Mayall. I would add Blues Deluxe by Joe Bonamassa. User Reviews. Especially live album Face The Music is awesome. Dont forget to listen the whole album Live in Dusseldorf Taking their name from a Muddy Waters song, Londons The Rolling Stones were just one of myriad white long-haired British beat groups drawing inspiration from old American blues records. Give me a break! You could get rid of all the rock bands and all the English bands. He rose to fame as a charismatic purveyor of folk-blues in the 1930s and went on to influence everyone from Lonnie Donegan and Bob Dylan to Nirvanas Kurt Cobain. John McVie. Greens playing is perfect Sublime ferocious subtle but most of all perfectly suited to each song. Jethro Tull This Was Lightnin Slim Best of You might wanna check them on Spotify or iTunes. The track was included on this retrospective, alongside a clutch of singles recorded for other indie labels during the 50s and early 60s, including I Believe, Done Somebody Wrong, and The Sky Is Crying. James music exerted a significant influence on the Rolling Stones during the British groups early years. For most of his life, this Mississippi-born practitioner of hill country blues received scant attention though in his final decade began to receive the accolades his music deserved. Keith Hartley. Im for the Top 200 Blues albums. Key Track: The Things That I Used To Do, The son of noted African American actor, Ossie Davis, native New Yorker Guy Davis has divided his life between music-making and acting (he appeared as Robert Johnson in an off-Broadway play about the singers life). Far too many white people on this list. After toiling as a street musician in Chicago, Hooker began playing in clubs and eventually cut some singles one of which, the instrumental Blue Guitar became the basis of Muddy Waters 1962 single, You Shook Me. With his reputation blossoming he guested on a Beatles TV special in the US Hookers debut LP followed in 1967 for the Wisconsin indie label, Cuca, and contained a dozen self-written instrumentals which highlighted his guitars stinging attack and lucid tone. 65 in Billboards pop albums chart. Both worthwhile considerations for sure. Although his self-titled debut contained three Sleepy John Estes tunes alongside blues standards by Blind Willie McTell, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Robert Johnson, Mahal was able to stamp his personality on the material and imbue it with a sense of gritty authenticity. Black Country Suite, his debut album, is mainly instrumental and is dominated by the ten-part titular opus, which shows off Allisons bebop-meets-blues and country piano style in a trio setting. Born in Houston, this flamboyant singer and guitarist moved to Los Angeles as a teenager and is best remembered for his commercially successful marriage of pimped-up blues, funk and soul in the 1970s. Though it mainly consisted of self-penned material, the influence of the Mississippi delta blues style is almost palpable. That is true for a number of these picks. No. Son House Father of the Blues, Albert King Years Gone By, Big Mama Thornton Jail, Fred McDowell and His Blues Boys, Sonny Boy Williamson One Way out, and Pink Anderson Carolina Blues Man. "Introduction." 2. Hollywood Fats Rock this House A double live album, Irish Tour 74 offers a vivid portrait of Gallaghers magnetic on-stage performances. My first concert was the Jefferson Airplane with the warm up band The Yardbirds in 1967. Blues. Bumble Bee spans the years 1929-1941, collecting all the Hoodoo Ladys seminal early sides with McCoy, including the classics Black Rat Swing, Dirty Mother For You, and New Dirty Dozen., Key Track: Whats The Matter With The Mill. Possessing a powerful, expressive voice, he racked up seventeen US R&B hits for Chess Records Checker imprint between 1962 and 1971. Son seals koko Taylor missed them stones bull, Joe Bonamassa Losing Hand Born Albert Gene Drewery in Texas and nicknamed The Ice Man, Collins was a cousin of blues maven Lightnin Hopkins but was inspired to sing and take up the guitar after hearing a John Lee Hooker record. Ben Harper & Charlie Musslewhite Get up! I am prepared to ignore your future posts if you continue with American and English biases and continue ignoring Canada and other countries. guess they assume its soul or r and b, but his early stuff was straight blues. Key Track: Good Morning, School Girl. Alvin Lee Bluest Blue is my favorite not on the list. John Mayall earns a place on my list because he appreciates the blues, he shepherded several artists like Clapton during their careers and for his contribution to the music! I would also include their Raw Sienna. Though she was reared on gospel music and grew up singing in church, the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, was no stranger to the blues, or what God-fearing Christian folk called The Devils Music. This compilation draws on bluesy gems from the Memphis-born divas Atlantic repertoire, including inspired renditions of Today I Sing The Blues, B.B. What about The Groundhogs? And you are an expert? Suffice to say, every album here should be in any discerning blues fans collection. He plays a lot of cigar box guitars and unusual instruments. ought to be there: Johnny Winter First Winter. AC/DC If you want Blood, Clarence Gatemouth Brown Many of them appeared on this album, which despite its title, was recorded in a studio and not in front of an audience. I would have left out any rock or jazz cross-over artists (No Stones, no Clapton, no Allman Bros, No Cream, no SRV!! James Milton Campbell is better known to blues and soul fans as Little Milton, a dynamic singer and guitarist originally from Inverness, Mississippi. After Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in Mayalls band, an 18-year-old guitarist called Mick Taylor (who would later supersede Brian Jones in The Rolling Stones) came in as an unknown on Crusade. Led Zepplin First album Key Track: Voodoo Woman, The song of a preacher, Johnson was a country blues singer and fingerstyle electric guitar player from Atlanta, Georgia. His R&B chart-topper, Sweet Little Sixteen, is one of the standout cuts on the guitar-toting, duck-walking tunesmiths second album, One Dozen Berrys. Hes another haunting, beautiful player who might not have come to your attention yet. and she was thrilled to see a Cuby and the Blizzards record. Fine list anyway! A landmark blues recording. Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers Live at B.B. The good thing that came out of this is the secondary list from these comments so we may all discover some hidden treasures that we may have never known about! The other thing that amazes me is how everybody is an authority on how the bands such as the Stones, Cream , Mayall, Butterfield and on and on saved the music and brought it back to life. A great blues album, and did as much as any album to enlighten the average 70s rock fans to the greatness of the blues. A raspy-voiced Louisiana singer and guitarist, Slim was the brother-in-law of Slim Harpo and released his debut single in 1954 for the Feature label but reaped more acclaim a few years later during his time at Excello, an R&B imprint of Ernie Youngs Nashboro label. Canadas finest blues man!!! The album contains a version of his 1951 US R&B chart-topper, Im In The Mood For Love.. To the gentleman who commented that John Mayall doesnt deserve a place in the Blues pantheon because he was born white and BritishEric Clapton. What is abundantly clear, though, is the visceral power of Johnsons music, originally released on a series of 78-rpm singles between 1936 and 1937. King was a year shy of his 40th birthday when he performed in front of adoring, screaming fans on November 21, 1964, at one of his favorite venues: Chicagos Regal Theater. JImmy Thackery & The Drivers Wild Night Out ! No Blues List is complet without Popa Chubby. Too bad that you only looked at US and UK blues greats. Go to the source not the people that are doing Rock covers. Good try but no Johnny Shines (with Shakey Horton) or Peatie Wheatstraw. Rocking at the Tweed Mill. As been noted, I cant see any list not including some Hendrix or Buchanan to be definitive, though this is subjective at best. These are the 21st Century albums that hit every pleasure center for us, that made us dance and sing along to karaoke and made the commute to work a little less miserable. Nicknamed Miss Peaches, this Los Angeles-born songstress was an ever-present figure on the US R&B charts between 1955 and 1978. 1 single, Blue Shadows, which features on this double LP compilation of recordings made between 1955 and 1962. try it out. The Sound of 65 Graham Bond Organisation (1965) I would have include Bukka White, but thats just my personnal taste. Albums were ranked according to their Metascore, which represents an aggregation of critic reviews. American audiences wouldnt know who any of these artists are today if he hadnt exposed them to the world, and we certainly wouldnt be aware of the blues greats who inspires them to pick up their respective instruments. The Blues was starting to come back to its own in 1965/1966 and would have continued thanks to the desire of college kids willing to expand away from the norm and the hipsters shunning mainstream music. We have given you our list of the best blues albums alphabetically, having given up trying to number. By channelling the straight-talking soulfulness of Etta James and the no-nonsense imperiousness of Big Mama Thornton, Copeland forged her own declamatory style and showed that she could handle slow ballads and uptempo material with equal aplomb. The title track from this, Harpos second album for Ernie Youngs Excello label, topped the R&B charts in 1966 but it was also significant for including the hypnotic, eminently danceable Shake Your Hips, covered by the Stones on their 1972 LP, Exile On Main Street, and the gentle, country-style ballad, Rainin In My Heart, which was a Top 20 US R&B smash. Though he was the new blues kid on the block, Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.) showed a musical maturity and fretboard virtuosity beyond his years on blues-steeped tracks like the title song, Hit The Ground Running, and the jazz-tinged, easy-swinging Rack Em Up.. first Taj Mahal solo record (w/ Ry Cooder, Jessie Ed Davis, etc) AND THE ALLMAN BROTHERS LUDLOW GARAGE THATS ABOUT AS CORE AS IT GETS, Missing thoughts, Listen to 100 Years Of The Blues on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list of the best blues albums ever. Folk directions of the 21 century Tweet Grammys would come later in her career and help to crown her the queen of contemporary blues, but Turn Up The Heat captures her at the start of what became a storied musical journey. The Groundhogs Split is one of the best unknown albums of all time, easily. Uh, no. Half of them are on vinyl though and I have a big job ahead of me digitizing them all. A feel-good collaboration between two Texas veteran guitar slingers and newcomer, Cray, Showdown! The songs on the album loosely follow the story of Yoshimi as she (surprise, surprise) battles the pink robots. Im not sure of the origin of many of these artists listed but it appears that the list doesnt include any Canadian blues guitarists. Your point is well taken. Bruce Fisher above is right! The UK version of this classic album included Williams delivering a fiery version of his iconic Baby Please Dont Go. A masterclass in delta blues. Great list! Albums i have listened to thousands of times. Lonnie Mack Wham In a slightly more dialed up vein, Id also include Anthony Gomes. Johnny Adams? You might want to re-evaluate your stance on Stevie Ray Vaughan too. Dont ever, ever, ever miss this one! A pall of myth and legend has clouded the publics perception of Johnson, a mysterious figure who supposedly sold his soul to the devil in a Faustian pact and died from poisoning aged 27. The missing link between rural delta Mississippi blues and its electrified Chicago cousin, singer/guitarist/harmonica player Wolf first made his mark with a potent succession of singles between 1951 and 1956 for Chess. James was 64 when he recorded Today! Monster Mike Welch Axe to Grind Rockin! Johnny Winter nothin but the blues riquitrefe. urban crime concept album conscious introspective male vocals passionate violence. The title song appeared on this compilation, a 10-track overview of his Stax-era recordings, including assorted singles, B-sides, and album tracks. Although there will always be missing someting. And I applaud you for alphabetical as opposed to a merit ranking. The Powder Blues Band may not be pc blues but they played their variety of blues. The London Howlin Wolf Sessions Howlin Wolf (1971) And I didnt know people were so mixed on Bonamasa. They included the chart-topping Messin Around, one of many standout cuts on Blues Greats, alongside the humorous Beer Drinking Woman. Frankie & Johnny Boogie is a pulsating solo piano piece highlighting Slims keyboard prowess. Notably Canadas Downchild (a.k.a. Only albums with seven or more reviews were eligible. You forgot Smokey Wilsons 88th Street Blues. Discover. How freaking true. RAYE says, "My 21st Century Blues. Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street. The presence of Big Bill Broonzys Key To The Highway and Chuck Willis Its Too Late honors the groups blues roots though its an original tune, Layla that won the critical plaudits. Key Track: Easy Baby. Street Corner Talking should be on the list. Joe Bonamassa Sloe Gin. The . I was happy to see Al Kooper mentioned, but its too bad that a band he was a member of the Blues Project featuring a great blues guitarist, Danny Kalb, wasnt included. The album had a profound impact on British blues-rock bands. Five Live Yardbirds The Yardbirds (1964) deservedly won a Grammy in 1986, and is clearly among the best blues albums ever. Lil`Ed & The Blues Imperials: Roughhousin` Submit Corrections Dubbed the Father of Texas Blues, visually-impaired Jefferson honed his craft on city street corners, playing for small change from passersby. Source Point & Southern Fried with Duane Allman!!! Handy found and lost at the Tutwiler train depot in 1903. Is there a link to the Spotify playlist anywhere? How dare you omit A Hard Road John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. Do you mean Mark Ford, with the Robben Ford Band? there is: the blues of Jimi Hendrix. Key Track: Rooster Blues. If you asked leading University music appreciation doctorate professors , I am CERTAIN you would find popularity and technical statistics that could not agree with the idem listing you have posted. Groundhogs should be in there and Chicken Shack as previously mentioned. Other standouts included Fried Hockey Boogie and the anti-drug message song, Amphetamine Annie. Though considered a rock group and beloved by the hippies and Woodstock generation, Canned Heats musical DNA was deeply rooted in the blues. The possessor of a powerful contralto voice, she was hailed by her first record company as the Mother of the Blues. She made her debut recording in 1923 and her final one, five years later, before retiring in 1935.
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